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After wining and dining some Senate Republicans, President Obama is heading to Capitol Hill this week to try to make more friends in the GOP. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The Walking Dead

If it's true that art imitates life (and sometimes it seems so), the National Labor Relations Board has become the bureaucratic equivalent of the television hit "The Walking Dead."

March 15, 2013
** FILE ** Attorney General Eric Holder listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 6, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice." (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The plea bargain danger

When someone from the government says he's just trying to help, watch out -- especially if he's offering a plea bargain. The deals often aren't worth taking -- or worse.

March 15, 2013
Illustration: Ethanol by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The ethanol bubble

When the price of a commodity rises to stratospheric heights for no apparent reason, it's likely hysterical speculation. Only the government could come up with a bubble in a commodity that's merely speculative. This week, the going price for a "renewable identification number" hit a high of $1.10, which is up 3,500 percent from the 3 cents it would have fetched just a few months ago.

March 15, 2013
** FILE ** Israeli police walk through the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

EDITORIAL: A line in the sand

If gestures of good will are greeted with streams of invective, a visitor will conclude that "this must be the Middle East." When President Obama arrives in Israel next week, he will say encouraging things about the plight of the Palestinian people and their quest for a state of their own.

March 14, 2013
Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling listens to staff before the start of the legislative session at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 in Richmond. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Goodbye, Bill Bolling

Virginians elect a new governor Nov. 5, and they'll get a rare choice between a constitutional conservative and an abortion liberal. No Tweedle Dee vs. Tweedle Dum this time.

March 14, 2013
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde gestures as she talks with Cyprus’ president Dimitris Christofias, unseen, during their meeting at the presidential palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Lagarde is in Cyprus for an informal European economic and financial affairs council. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

EDITORIAL: Another European nation falls

Europeans have so many nations in financial trouble that they came up with an acronym, PIIGS, to keep track of the worst: Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain. Now a sixth nation, Cyprus, is about to join this less-than-illustrious group.

March 14, 2013
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg could have some union-related trouble involving the Teamsters. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

EDITORIAL: Glug, glug, hooray

The regulation that threatened to snuff out Slurpees and Big Gulps in New York City is itself dead, at least for now. A state judge, Milton A. Tingling, praise and honor be on him, ruled that the regulation conceived by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the galloping vanquisher of trans fats, was "fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences."

March 13, 2013
The obverse view of the newly announced Distinguished Warfare Medal is pictured. The military has stopped production of the medal for remote warfare troops — drone operators and cyberwarriors — as it considers complaints from veterans and lawmakers over the award, a government official said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)

EDITORIAL: Good riddance to a medal

This administration certainly loves drones, but even that ardent passion has limits. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday put a stop to production of a medal that was to be awarded to drone operators, and not a moment too soon.

March 13, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, before the House Financial Services Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

EDITORIAL: Behind the Bernanke curtain

The spooks don't preside over the most secretive agency of the government. It's no place for spies or their spymasters, so it isn't the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency or even the Office of National Intelligence. The place where the deepest secrets are kept is where the gnomes of the central banks work.

March 13, 2013
Gina McCarthy stands on stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 4, 2013, as President Barack Obama announced he would nominate McCarthy to head the EPA. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

EDITORIAL: Environmentalist protection agency

There will be no breath of fresh air at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). On March 4, President Obama introduced Gina McCarthy, a veteran of the EPA bureaucracy, as his choice to run the 17,000-employee agency during his second term.

March 12, 2013
**FILE** Caitlin J. Halligan (left), then a lawyer for New York, and David Boies, a lawyer for Court TV, talk in the Court of Appeals in Albany, N.Y., on April 27, 2005, before Boies represented a cable television channel in their suit against the state to reverse a ban on cameras in the courtroom. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Withdraw the Halligan nomination

Senate Republicans have so far thwarted the nomination of Caitlin J. Halligan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, often a way station to the U.S. Supreme Court. On the evidence so far, she would be a rubber stamp for the worst of President Obama's second-term agenda.

March 12, 2013
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is likely to sign some form of a transportation plan but decisions on other bills are less clear. “[H]e’s going to be confronted with criticism no matter which direction he’s gone,” political analyst Bob Holsworth says. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Governor Disappointment

The surest and quickest way for a Republican officeholder to kill his future is to dream up a tax increase. Once a rising star in the Grand Old Party, a shortlist contender as Mitt Romney's running mate and a twinkle in the eye of the Great Mentioner for 2016, Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia has disappeared from the speakers' lists at key conservative events, such as the Conservative Political Action Conference, which begins Thursday in Washington.

March 12, 2013
** FILE ** Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, is House Oversight Committee chairman. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Not so fast, Mr. President

The president says any cuts to the federal leviathan would harm women, children and maybe their puppies and kittens -- and so far he's been able to get away with this fib. Now, the government's own inspectors general are collectively saying: "Not so fast, Mr. President."

March 11, 2013
Illustration Devil Money by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The devil in the details

There was good news on the jobs front Friday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the unemployment rate dipped to 7.7 percent in February. That's the lowest figure since President Obama was sworn in in 2009, but it's not quite time to break out the champagne.

March 11, 2013
Illustration: Scouts honor by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: Defending the Boy Scouts

The future of the Boy Scouts is on the line. Left-wing activists have made overturning the youth organization's traditional values a priority, and the national leadership will decide in May whether to cave to the pressure and celebrate homosexuality as a moral value for the nation's boys.

March 11, 2013
Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, is now “the man to beat in 2016,” a Republican strategist said, after delaying a vote Wednesday on CIA nominee John O. Brennan with an old-style one-man filibuster. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Rand against the drones

The drones are coming. Who could have imagined such a science-fiction tale, a president who could kill, via remote control, anyone he declares an enemy of the state -- and on American soil. Until now, the White House refused to close the door on such a scenario, despite pretensions of taking civil liberties seriously.

March 8, 2013
** FILE ** President Barack Obama walks from the Cross Hall into the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, to award the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation to recipients at a ceremony. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

EDITORIAL: White House visitors, get lost

Brownie troops, baseball teams and kids from places like Ottumwa, Texarkana and East Gondola who have been washing cars and saving dimes for years to pay for their senior trip, can scratch the White House off the list of places to see in Washington. In a fit of pique over how sequestration didn't shut down the government, President Obama has canceled all public tours.

March 8, 2013
**FILE** Sen. Dianne Feinstein seeks to reimpose weapons bans that expired in 2004. The California Democrat’s current bill would go further than her 1994 law, which was sunsetted. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Decision time on ‘assault weapons’

Several days before the November elections, Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to meet with her lawyers to prepare for the renewal of the Clinton-era gun ban, early in President Obama's second term.

March 8, 2013
President Obama speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington on March 1, 2013, following after meeting with congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Unsheathe the knives

Barack Obama went to some big towns in his campaigns and gave some big talk. He vowed to go line-by-line through the federal budget to identify and cut waste. The big talk, it turns out, wasn't worth the teleprompter it was printed on.

March 7, 2013
“When you see someone’s picture, it may offer the opportunity to connect a person up with other crimes,” said D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh, a Ward 3 Democrat who has introduced a bill to lift the ban on releasing mug shots of suspects. “It allows us to connect a string of crimes in a way we otherwise wouldn’t.” (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Mrs. Cheh’s insurance scam

The D.C. Council, always on the scout for a new way to pick the pockets of the people who live in Washington, now proposes to require gun owners to pay for exercising their constitutional rights. Under a proposal introduced by Mary M. Cheh, a member of the council, gun owners would be required to buy liability insurance.

March 7, 2013